What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[KizuyaKatogami]

ShB would've had to have been a lot different for it to work out. At some point we're just going to have to admit that ShB did not take the story in a good direction just because it was amazingly well-written in a vacuum. As great as it was in that vacuum, it was extremely short-sighted in how it handled story threads.

I'm also pretty sure Ishikawa didn't know that we'd not have a Garlemald expansion until after ShB's main story was done, so it was already too late.

I mean, i agree with that. They didn’t seem to do much planning ahead at all with ShB. It’s especially odd when you think about how they said the original final boss of ShB was to be Eden, which makes me think that’s probably the same storyline that would lead to garlemald expansion in 6.0.